Jos Brink

Jos Brink (19 June 1942 – 17 August 2007) was a Dutch actor, radio and musical performer, film producer, television and radio personality, columnist and author. Brink was also a pastor engaged to the oecumenical congregation De Duif in Amsterdam.

Brink was born in Heiloo, North Holland. He did much to promote acceptance of homosexuality in Dutch society and was a well-known out gay person. He started living with his artistic partner Frank Sanders in 1973.

In a 1979 TV show Thank You, Your Majesty he kissed Queen Juliana (1909–2004) while congratulating her on her 70th birthday.

Biography

Jos Brink was born in Heiloo, North Holland, where his family stayed during the Second World War. After the war, the liberal Remonstrant family with five sons lived successively in Rotterdam and Zuidoostbeemster, where his father worked at the tax authorities in Purmerend. Later, his parents moved to Heerlen. During his youth, Brink was regularly taken by his parents to theater performances in Amsterdam.

Education and career

During his secondary school years, Brink enrolled at Minjon, the youth training of the AVRO. He made his debut at the radio drama core of the Nederlandse Radio Unie in 1959 with three words in the radio play, De Z-mysterie van de hoorspelkern.

Among other things, he played "Van Bergen" in the radio play Testbemanning. Brink had set his sights on a career as an artist, but his father thought that was a bad idea for financial reasons. He then went on to study acting.